Re: [Goanet] Dismal Record-Keeping

2018-07-11 Thread Venantius J Pinto
Brilliantly rendered angst. Sheer brilliance. IMHO its high time that Indians, who have a propensity of being to some manor born, accept and deride the callous disregard we engineer towards lived aesthetics. Of course while continuing to better themselves. AND, many of us did not learn grace, nor

[Goanet] Dismal Record-Keeping

2018-07-11 Thread Roland Francis
While John Eric Gomes has triggered my venting at Indian Bureaucracy, let me dwell a little on record-keeping in India. Indians are singularly lacking in any sense of history or personal records. They see no need for it, they find no value in maintaining it. The Portuguese and British on the